"The Judge's chambers have received numerous vitriolic calls regarding the case"

An upstate New York judge who stoked outrage after he sentenced a former school bus driver to probation in the rape of a 14-year-old girl has been inundated with malicious phone calls.

Jefferson County Supreme Court Judge James McClusky sentenced 26-year-old Shane Piche to 10 years of probation last week.

The sentence sparked an online wave of wave of condemnation against the judge from people arguing that the punishment was too lenient…

‘The Judge’s chambers have received numerous vitriolic calls regarding the case, the vast majority from out of state, by individuals who know nothing about the facts and circumstances of the case, thanks to social media,’ state court spokesman Lucian Chalfen said..

Chalfen said the judge was ‘well within’ the sentencing range for this type of negotiated plea conviction.